GUYBERT MARION PHILLIPS:
An Inventory of His World War I Photograph Album at the Minnesota Historical Society
Sound and Visual Collection
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| Creator: |
Phillips, Guybert Marion, 1896-1968, photographer.
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| Title: | Guybert Marion Phillips World War I photograph album. |
| Dates: | 1918-1919. |
| Language: | Materials in English. |
| Abstract: | Views of Paris, Reims, and the French countryside taken by Guybert Marion Phillips while serving in the French ambulance unit S.S.U. 568 during World War I. Album includes images taken in Scotland and London in April of 1919 following the end of the war. |
| Quantity: | 1 album (25 photoprints): black and white; 8 x 10 in. |
| Location: | Reserve Album 321: See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
Guybert Marion Phillips was born in Dawson, Minnesota in 1896 and graduated from Central High School in St. Paul in 1914 or 1915. Phillips attended Hamline University and in his sophomore or junior year, volunteered for World War I and was assigned to ambulance unit S.S.U. 568 and served as a driver throughout France from 1917 to 1919. For his service Phillips was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Upon his return home, he opened the investment firm Caldwell-Phillips.
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[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Guybert Marion Phillips World War I Photograph Album. Minnesota Historical Society.
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Accession Information:
Accession number: AV2014.34
Processing Information:
Processed by: Allison Neely, January 2015.
Catalog ID number: 990081889380104294
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 1 | | Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The Arc de Triomphe in Paris when we passed every day while on on duty. Some of the statues have been sandbagged to protect them from Boehe Bombs. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 2 | | Eiffel Tower from the ferris wheel, Paris, France, June 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Eiffel Tower from the ferris wheel in Paris. To the extreme left is the Trocadero while in the right background can be seen the Arc de Triomphe. The tower is 400 feet high. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 3 | | Man eatting bread and jam on a bench on the Rue de la Chapelle, Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Breakfast of bread and jam on the Rue de la Chapelle after too much night driving for good health and amiable dispositions. We were glad to snatch a bite to eat most any time. A typical Parisian avenue. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 4 | | Temporary bridge over the Aisne River, Bahlem, Ardennes, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: One of five temporary bridges over the Aisne River which we had to cross on each trip to and from the front. This scene is at Bahlem in the Ardennes, France. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 5 | | Rue Royale from the steps of the Madeline, Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The Rue Royale in gay Paris from the steps of the Madeline on a Sunday afternoon. The Place de la Concorde is two blocks distant. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 6 | | View of Paris from the ferris wheel, Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Taken from a car on the ferris wheel in Paris looking to the north and east. Notre Dame Cathedral is just visible on the left. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 7 | | Ambulances in front of American base hospital in Neuilly near Porte Maillot, Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: American base hospital #1 in Neuilly just outside Port Maillot of Paris. This was our boarding place during June and part of July, 1918. Some of our cars are parked along the driveway. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 8 | | Ruins at Luneville, France, August 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Ruins at Luneville France in the Lorraine sector. We were billeted in this village during August, 1918. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 9 | | Ruins of Reims Cathedral, Reims, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: A front view of the Reims Cathedral taken in a rain. The building was irreparably damaged and is at its worst in this picture as the last Boehe shell to explode in Reims was fired that morning. A city of 125,000 inhabitants and we were unable to find one home which was not damaged. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 10 | | Art Storm pictured center with French poilus, Champagne, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Art Storm and a few poilus sunning themselves between storms in the Champagne, France, |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 11 | | French infantry going through a communication trench, Champagne, France, September 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: French infantry going in through a communication trench in the Champagne. These are replacement troops. This picture was taken near one of our advanced posts. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 12 | | Roy Dingle inspecting barbed wire entanglements on the Champagne front, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Roy Dingle inspecting barbed wire entanglements on the Champagne front. Nothing but ruin and devastation remaining of a most picturesque and fertile farming country. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 13 | | S.S.U. 568 ambulances on an advanced post in the Ardennes, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Two ambulances of S.S.U. 568 on an advanced post in the Ardennes only a short distance behind the lines. A shell is just bursting to the rear of the nearest car. In the extreme right of the picture is an abandoned tank. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 14 | | Guybert Phillips washing his ambulance at the St. Louis barracks in Metz, France, February 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: This is Voiture Numero Onze receiving a much needed washing at the St. Louis barracks in Metz by its conducteur and boon companion, yours truly. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 15 | | Barbed wire entanglements between St. Hilaire-le-Petit and St. Marie-a-Py, Champagne, France, September 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Barbed wire entanglement in the Champagne sector between St. Hilaire-le-Petit and St. Marie-a-Py. Our division won back this ground in the great offensive of Sept. 26, 1918. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 16 | | Trafalgar Square, London, England, April 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Trafalgar Square in the heart of London with the Nelson monument in the foreground, and one of the busiest corners of the metropolis. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 17 | | The promenade near the Hotel Beau Rivage, Nice, France, January 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The promenade at Nice in France. This view was snapped in front of the Beau Rivage, one of the many hotels leased by the United States to care for their soldiers while on leave, and our stopping place during eight days in Nice. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 18 | | Exterior view of a house and courtyard in Paris, France, July 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The courtyard and my home for six weeks in Paris. We enjoyed the conveniences of civilian life here with running hot water, sheets, and everything. I slept my first night in Paris here. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 19 | | Pedestrians in front of The Casino at Monte-Carlo, Monaco, January 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The Casino at Monte Carlo, the most famous gambling house of the Riviera. In the foreground is the promenade overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 20 | | View of Menton and the French coastline, Menton, France, January 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The French coast along the Mediterranean from the Italian border. Menton is easily discernable across the bay. We enjoyed lunch at Menton on this trip with a real fish dinner. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 21 | | View of Chateau Landon near Ferrieres, France, May 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: Chateau Landon near Ferrieres, a relic of feudal France. We stopped here on one of our hikes from the base camp on a hot May afternoon. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 22 | | Cameron House on Loch Lomond, Scotland, April 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: This is one of the many beautiful castles on the wooded shores of Loch Lomond in Scotland. We chartered a private motor boat for this trip and saw a great deal of the lake in the short time at our disposal. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 23 | | View of shelling during Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, Champagne, France, October 1918. |
| | | Photographer's caption: A poor picture of a shell burstin on Mont Blanc in the Champagne. This country was heavily wooded before the devastation from continued shell fire. It is reported that 80,000 Frenchmen perished in repeated attempts to capture this German stronghold. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 24 | | Elizabeth Tower and the east end of the Palace of Westminster, London, England, April 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: The east end of the Parliament Building in London at four in the afternoon. We attended a session of the House of Commons just a few minutes before we snapped this picture. |
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| Reserve Album 321 no. 25 | | Street view of The Casino at Monte-Carlo, Monaco, January 1919. |
| | | Photographer's caption: A corner of the Casino at Monte Carlo with the beautiful French Alps in the background. We motored on their crests on the return road to Nice. |
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Soldiers -- Minnesota -- Photographs.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Ambulances -- Photographs.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Photographs.
- Places:
- France -- Photographs.
- London (England) -- Photographs.
- Monte Carlo (Monaco) -- Photographs.
- Scotland -- Photographs.
- Document Types:
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
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